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Creating scatter plots - Tableau Tutorial
From the course: Tableau 10 Essential Training
Creating scatter plots
- [Instructor] When you bring data into Tableau, it's very likely that your data will have some sort of category associated with it. That category or non-numerical information could perhaps be a date or it could be a category of product or even the city in which a hotel is located. In this movie, I will show you how to compare two numerical values using scatter plots where one value is plotted on the vertical, or Y-axis, and the other is plotted on the horizontal, or X-axis. My sample file is the Scatter workbook and you can find that in the Chapter10 folder of your Exercise Files collection. This workbook contains data about two values. Visit Length, which is a number, and Visit Revenue, which is also a number. And I'd like to see the relationship between the length of time a customer stays at my hotel versus the amount of money that they spend in addition to just the basic room rate. To do that I need to add my values to the visualization so I will double-click Visit Length to add…
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Creating column and stacked column charts3m 19s
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Creating line charts and area fill charts3m 50s
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Creating pie charts3m 45s
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Creating scatter plots3m 19s
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Identifying data clusters3m 54s
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Creating histograms3m 6s
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Summarizing data using a smart histogram3m 18s
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Defining discrete bins from a continuous measure4m 15s
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Creating a treemap3m 26s
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